Marino Colina


Marino Colina is an Argentinian drummer, composer, conductor and producer born in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Biography

Marino Colina, was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, of Venezuelan-Italian parentage. His mother Maria Francesca Delacqua immigrated from Messina, Italy to Argentina with her parents in 1951. His father, Marino Jose de Jesús Colina Pardo, an aeronautics engineer, from Venezuela, met her in London during the 1970s and together they initiated a family in Buenos Aires. Being raised in such a multicultural family, Marino got in touch with very diverse musical styles and got very interested in arts in general.
Since 2012, he is the drummer of Olga Show. In October 2012 the band Olga Show won the award for Best Street Performer in Berlin.
In 2014 Marino Colina was organizing demonstrations to protect the rights of street performers in Berlin.
Marino Colina has performed along with Olga Kholodnaya in front of the Bataclan, four days after the 13 November 2015 attacks in Paris, as a call for world peace and a tribute for all the victims of war around the world.

Discography

Instrument

Currently, he plays a Masshoff orchestral drum kit specially developed for playing together with string instruments without the need of amplification. For 5 years prior to that, he had been using Gretsch drums.